Where the Wild Things Are

The classic children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, transformed into a film, in my opinion was just okay. I personally thought that a lot of the film was not changed in a way for the best. When I say that I mean that I think the movie adaptation was not filmed to the best of its ability. I thought a lot of the scenes that you remember as a child being so normal and not creepy were very creepy in the movie. For example, the part where they are having the good and bad groups and then having a war, I always remember that not being as weird and awkward in that scene. One more scene that was like that was when he bit his mom in the beginning of the movie. That could of not been included in the movie. Another thing that I didn’t like about the movie is how unbelievable fake some of the scenes were, I couldn’t stand that! An example of this is when he is sailing back to his house on the boat and he is just in the middle of nowhere yet he makes it back to his house. I know it’s just a kids movie that is fake and transformed into a movie, but there is no way he knew where he was going and that something that could have been changed to actually make a little bit more sense. Another example of it being so unbelievably fake and unacceptable was when Carol rips Douglas’ wing off. That was so fake and unrealistic it could have been changed to be a lot more ‘real’ you could say. A lot of little parts of the movie really annoyed me for being like that and those are part of the reasons that I didn’t think that Where the Wild Things Are is a good film adaptation. Some things that I did like about the movie were first that it was a lot like the book, so there wasn’t a lot changed and it wasn’t to noticeably different in the movie. I liked that because then you can tell that they really were trying to convert the movie and keep as close as they could to the original book. I think that it is good how they got a lot of the characters to look and resemble the characters in the book, they are all at least similar to how they had them in the book. In my opinion I like the book a lot better then the movie. So, if I were the one deciding if this should have been converted into a movie I defiantly wouldn’t of said yes after watching this film adaptation.